Test 4 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician…

Mate, did the woodman give the Musician a dead good thank-you?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: woodman · What happens: give · To what, where: Musician

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1583 «Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician's last trick, then Sigurd's birth and Regin's tale of the gold» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woodman	det
5	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Musician	det
8	Musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 thank	det
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thank	amod
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thank	amod
12	thank	thank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	parataxis
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 you	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 thank	flat
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	the woodman	the Musician				Mate vocative	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent musician=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

He stood up for him, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 stood	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 proper	punct
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	He					for him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He stood by him, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	He					by him = he; proper property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He raised his axe and stood guard in front of him, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 raised	nsubj
2	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 axe	nmod:poss
4	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raised	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stood	cc
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	conj
7	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 front	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 proper	punct
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 raised	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	He	his axe					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
2	stand	past	He not said here	guard		front of him			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=Theme in front=Destination

Option 4

He stood up for him and gave him a huge reward, proper, innit

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 stood	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gave	cc
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 reward	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 reward	amod
11	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 proper	punct
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 reward	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	INTJ	_	2 stood	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	He					for him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	He not said here	a huge reward	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reward=Theme

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